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Traction forces may serve well to elongate the cell, allowing the formation of the cylindrical shape.
Taste cells expressing IP 3 R3 have an elongate, bipolar morphology, suggestive of Type II taste cells [ 22].
The morphological observations presented in this study demonstrate that fiber cells in lenses lacking alphaA and alphaB fail to elongate symmetrically from the bow region and therefore do not establish the typical "onion skin" conformation in which cells extend from the anterior epithelium to the posterior capsule.
Cells of Bacillus subtilis grown under conditions where daughter cells fail to separate after each cell cycle, although the cytoplasm has been compartmentalized by septum formation, produce filaments consisting of chains of cells linked end to end [ 1 ] . Such filaments twist as they elongate, writhe, and eventually touch themselves.
When the cells begin to elongate (E, Figure 8), GFP-myosin II already concentrates at the equatorial region and remains there through the early stage (C e , Figure 8), the mid-stage (C m , Figure 8), and the late stage of cytokinesis.